The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.
RON WHITEI was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
More Ron White Quotes
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I write all of my material. It’s all me.
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If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.
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My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do.
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There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
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My goal is just to become a better comedian.
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Diamonds – that’ll shut her up… for a minute!
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I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits.
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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
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The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.
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Donald Trump – and I don’t dislike Donald one single bit – has no idea how good the Mexican people are at building tunnels.
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I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.
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Let’s face it: a lot of my material comes from the stuff that happens to me on the road.
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You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
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There have been times when I played more than others, but I’ve been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I’ve always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill.
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Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.
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